by eric yullu.
Jason, how are you installing your moodle,
i may say there are two ways of installing moodle install from command terminal of your machine
http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Installation_Quickstart
or read this will be of great help to you
http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Installing_Moodle
second way is download the files and extract the moodle then copy it your web root folder, create the moodle data and database, the open your browser to initialize the installation.